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primary branch of theology . Here he furnishes us with a remarkably clear , interesting and useful history of the formation of Origen ' s Hexapla .
The history of sacked criticism in the early and middle ages is continued and concluded in the fourth lecture . Dr . M . does not pass over the labours of Ltician and Hesychius in this field , the manner in which the Masora was
formed , the origin of the Latin vulgate , the collation of the Philoxenian version with the Greek manuscripts in Egypt , and the bAlcui
revisions of the vulgate y n , Lanfranc , &c . He says a few words concerning the learned Spanish Jews , Ezra , Maimonides , &c . who , in the twelfth century , laid the foundation of that Hebrew
learning which afterwards extended to Germany , and also respecting Rfcuchlin or Capnio , the father of Hebrew literature among Christians * The professor then refers his hearers , for further
information , to the works of Montfaucon , Humphrey Hody , the Buxtorfs and Bishop Brian Walton , to JVfslrtianay ' s Jerom , to Assemani , Mill , Wetstein , Simon , Michaelis , Glocester Ridley , Professor White and Wolf . In this lecture , no other order could well be observed
than chronological order . In the fifth , Dr . M . treats of the criticism of the Greek Testament , which he familiarly shows to be the key-stone of the arch
that supports the fabric of Christianity . As the object which first deserves attention here is to form , as far as is practicable , a genuine text of the N . T . he inquires into the causes of the variations of the MSS . ar \ ji into the remedies which have been applied to this evil . In
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recording the attempts which have been made in later ages to restore the text to its original purity , he judges it necessary to give a description of the critical editions of
the G . T . This description he divides into two periods ; the one commencing with the first printed edition and ending with the Elzevir edition 'of 1624 ; the other
ineluding the critical editions which have appeared from that time to the present . He observes that the first printed edition of the whole G . T . is that which is contained
in the Complutensian Polyglot ; and he proves , in the remainder of the lecture , that it is . of little or no value ., The same subject , the criticism of the G . T . is continued * in the
sixth , down to the formation of the textus receptus % A minute description is given of the editions by Erismus . Those by Colinceus * Robert Stephens and Beza , and
that printed by Elzevir , are enumerated and appreciated : and the professor concludes that the text in common use was copied , with a few exceptions ^ from the imperfect text of Beza .
Dr . fyl . thus finishes the first period in the critical history of the Greek text ; proposing to enter on the second in Easter term of the present year . But as nearly twelve months would elapse before the lectures could be renewedy he thinks proper to make some general observations on the scope of those labours of the learned
which belong to the second of the periods already mentioned , on the unanimous 4 edarat * on ( so ** deems it ) of the Greek MSS . of the N . T . in favour of the doctrine of the Trinity , and of the atonement by Jesus Christj on the au-
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358 Review . —Dr . Marsh ' s Lectures and Letter .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1810, page 358, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2406/page/38/
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